Are there 10 sides to every story? — It was the middle of the working day. I bent forward with a frown on my face, hearing the triple-buzz on WhatsApp. I was startled when I saw an acquaintance of mine (Kiran) re-tweet a picture that he had seen on Twitter. He then forwarded that tweet to me, accompanied…

Or, a political calculation gone haywire — Peacekeeping forces!! That was the first time I heard about them. They were from NATO. Deployed initially during the Balkan war in the ’90s. Scenes of tanks rolling into the streets of Serbia and Bosnia with CNN’s Christian Amanpour mic’d up in the foreground. …

Should we leave all out-of-the-box solutions to Elon Musk? — Yeah, the planet is warming — tell me something new. I have heard it before, you tune in to CNN and all you see are experts talking about how we can pivot away from fossil fuels. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria a few months ago on his GPS weekly show featured the…

The last time a major war was won without one of the sides even raising a finger was in the years leading up to 1947 when India got her independence from Britain. …

A decade ago, in the middle of a working day I received a call from a colleague from China. He told me that I had wrongfully tagged him on one of my group snaps on Facebook(Meta). I was concerned as I had not tagged him in any photos until I…

Will wolf diplomacy really work for China? — Hide your strength, bide your time — Deng Xiaoping For decades this was the underlying foreign policy doctrine followed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Even when their economy was growing at a runaway rate, they always seemed nonchalant towards the rest of the world. They joined the World Trade…

A mime about a year ago in May 2020, (when we were all lamenting the outset of a lost generation), joked about which individual/entity in a corporation was actually driving digital strategy — the CEO, CTO or Covid!! At the outset of a month-long lockdown due to covid, a Video’s…

In a very commonly known party game (one we call Passing the Parcel), a package is passed from hand to hand across the room while the music plays. When the music suddenly stops, a layer of the parcel is peeled off by an unfortunate soul (who was left holding the…

Cryptowallets and Layer 2 protocols, NFT’s enabling artists to create their own tokens and innovative Blockchains spawning out of every type of known digital asset. The bandwagon for this new economy seems to be gathering steam fast. …